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Reference Wordsmith is freelance/contract work by Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer, a lexicographer with four decades’ experience in writing and editing dictionaries, thesauri, and other reference works as well as creating and editing lexical content for semantic analysis and natural language processing.

As the “human hand,” Dr. Kipfer creates, connects, interprets, and tweaks lexical information so it becomes accessible. Her experience includes data curation, semantic research and analysis, natural language processing, search engine and information retrieval, question-answering, artificial intelligence research, and the creation of ontologies and other classification schemes.